fructuous

comparative more fructuous · superlative most fructuous

1. rarefruitful

   1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation ... and there is a fulle fair vale and a fructuouse, and there is a fair cytee and a gode, that men clepen Neople.

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   As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.

   1904, Owen Felltham, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, Resolves